Emma Roth

News Writer

Verizon’s new Netflix and Max bundle costs $10 / month with ads

Emma RothDec 4, 2023

SpaceX will take some Amazon satellites to space

Emma RothDec 1, 2023

Microsoft Copilot is now generally available.

Copilot, the AI chatbot formerly known as Bing Chat, is out of preview. That means Copilot is now available in 105 languages and 169 countries “on all modern browsers for mobile and web,” according to Caitlin Roulston, the director of communications at Microsoft.

Even though the preview label is going away today, Roulston says Microsoft will continue to “launch new features in preview while we iterate, listen to feedback, and improve the experience for our users.”

Emma RothDec 1, 2023

Google agrees to pay $27 million to settle a seven-year-old labor complaint.

In 2016, an employee sued Google for having too strict of a confidentiality program, which allegedly discouraged workers from reporting illegal activity in violation of California’s labor laws.

Google’s decision to settle means the majority of the $27 million will go to the state of California, while employees will get anywhere from $20 to $70, according to Semafor. A Google spokesperson tells the publication “that resolution of the matter, without any admission of wrongdoing, is in the best interest of everyone.”

Google reaches $27 million settlement in case that sparked employee activism in tech

[www.semafor.com]

Emma RothDec 1, 2023

Baldur’s Gate 3 was, unsurprisingly, the most-played Steam Deck title last month.

BG3 has been the most popular Steam Deck title since August, and now it’s topping the charts once again. Sitting in second and third place are Cyberpunk 2077 and Diablo IV, both of which have also become regulars on the top 20 list.

Emma RothDec 1, 2023

An inside look at Apple’s chip-testing labs.

This video from CNBC offers a behind-the-scenes look at the facilities where Apple tests its M-series chips for Macs and the A-series chips for iPhones. You can see the labs at around 3:21 and 7:05.

Aside from that, Johny Srouji, Apple’s senior vice president of hardware, also hints at the possibility of the company developing its own modems, stating “We care about cellular and we have teams enabling that.”

Analogue is shipping its TurboGrafx console and restocking Pockets

Emma RothDec 1, 2023

Peter Griffin and Solid Snake in Fortnite?

Those are two names I’d never thought I’d see together, but a leaked image of the Chapter 5 battle pass suggests Peter Griffin and Snake will both be available as skins.

Tomorrow, December 2nd, Eminem will send off the Fortnite OG chapter with an appearance during The Big Bang event at 2PM ET.

Emma RothDec 1, 2023

X is turning to small to medium-sized businesses to offset the advertising exodus.

After Elon Musk’s endorsement of an antisemitic post led Apple, Disney, IBM, and other major companies to pull advertising from the platform, now an X spokesperson tells the Financial Times it will target smaller businesses instead:

‘Small and medium businesses are a very significant engine that we have definitely underplayed for a long time,’ the company told the Financial Times. ‘It [was] always part of the plan — now we will go even further with it.’

Musk had some choice words for the advertisers who fled the platform during NYT’s DealBook event on Wednesday and said their boycott will “kill” the company.

X ramps up new advertising strategy following Elon Musk’s tirade

[FinancialTimes]